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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

I know people don’t want to mention Microsoft Teams because it’s Microsoft. Those that do might struggle with limitations of data caps or competing with folks thrust together in a lockdown and each hungry for broadband. thanks to many friends, including a slew on Facebook and this Reddit thread ).

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

” To help increase digital literacy awareness in underserved communities, Broadband Rhode Island , a partner with RIFLI, created a curriculum in 2011 for adult education teachers to promote digital literacy among adult learners. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

I know people don’t want to mention Microsoft Teams because it’s Microsoft. Those that do might struggle with limitations of data caps or competing with folks thrust together in a lockdown and each hungry for broadband. thanks to many friends, including a slew on Facebook and this Reddit thread ).

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. Microsoft and Apple are two. But it’s also time to recognize that some companies – Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook among them – aren’t primarily in the computing business anyway.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” ” Meanwhile on Campus.

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The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

MindShift

Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. They do a version of “morning meeting” using Microsoft Teams, videoconferencing every morning at 8:30. “I’ve spoken to his mom. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”